Petra Lindholm

The exhibition at the Småland Art Archive in Vandalorum consists mostly of newly produced textile works and a video work. In these works, the artist has tried to convey the inner state of the earth through site-bound experience and intuitive perception.

Lindholm practices the same artistic process regardless of the medium or material she has for her hands. Own and collected material is processed and put together in transparent layers by layer until the finished composition appears. She works associatively and creates her compositions and suggestive visual and sound flows through a constantly searching process of adding and removing.

Petra Lindholm (b. 1973 in Karis, Finland) lives and works outside Älmhult in Småland. Lindholm was educated at Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (1996—2001) and has had solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland, Italy and the United States. She is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Malmö Konstmuseum, Borås Konstmuseum, Västerås Konstmuseum, EMMA museum, ProArtibus and Kiasma. In 2001 she received the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Scholarship, in 2006 she was awarded the third prize of the Carnegie Art Awards and in 2018 she received the Axel Theodor Sandberg Prize from the Academy of Fine Arts. In recent years she has also performed a number of major public design assignments where she has worked spatially with sculpture and installation.

Thanks to: Gallery Magnus Karlsson, Värnamo Municipality, Region Jönköping County and Region Kronoberg